On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 01:52  PM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino 
wrote:

> 	include the main portion of the driver into sys/dev/pci (or whatever),
> 	and the driver has function pointer(s) for hook(s).  until the 
> function
> 	pointer(s) are filled all ioctls to the driver would be rejected.
> 	by loading LKM we fill in the function pointer(s).

There's no need to use LKMs; you only need to use config(8)'s build-in 
binary object support.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>